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Water Rustlers · Beat 159 · permalink

Private office

31:45–31:47 Released 1938; registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 31:4631:46

Play from 31:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 95 · shots 286–286. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man with short hair, wearing a light shirt and neckerchief, seated visible
  • woman with blonde wavy hair, wearing a light blouse and dark vest, seated visible
  • older man with graying hair, wearing a light shirt and tie, seated visible
Seen
wooden table [frame:1], cowboy hat (light-colored) [frame:1], cowboy hat (dark-colored) [frame:1], wooden paneled wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or serious; themes: confrontation, western genre, dialogue scene setup; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, period costume

Three people sit at a wooden table with hats placed before them; the setting appears to be an interior wooden-paneled room. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from Water Rustlers (1938) at 31:46 (passage 31:45–31:47); US record: No renewal found

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